Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Carmelo Anthony
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Carmelo Anthony.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
Of course I want to take the last shot, let's be quite frank: I've been doing for nine years already, and I've made a ton of them.
At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.
Who wouldn't want to go back home to play?
With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.
I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.
The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.
I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time.
Leadership is something I was born with.
I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.
When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.
What I do will be straight up. Management knows that.
I'm really into fashion.
Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.
I can't palm a basketball.
I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you.
Life is a risk.
I like having fun.
I think everybody has their own unique style.
I just want to get on the court.
I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.
It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.
I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.
I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.
Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.
It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.
I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.
Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.
To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal.
When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.
You make your own party.
I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me.
Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.
No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.
If you laugh, think, and cry; that's a full day.
It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.
People need to see the authentic people that are still out there, the genuine people that really care.
I want to be a free agent. I think everybody in the NBA dreams to be a free agent at least one time in their career. It's like you have an evaluation period. It's like if I'm in the gym and I have all the coaches, all the owners, all the GMs come into the gym and just evaluate everything I do. So yes, I want that experience.
How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.
Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.
People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!
You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.
Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.
Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.
You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career.
At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters.
When you've never had something, you want it worse than anything.
Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.
I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.
As long as you stay true to yourself and to who you are, you ain't in nobody's way.
Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team.
Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!
These close games that we're losing, the teams are not beating us. We're kind of beating ourselves.
A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'
I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.
I did this campaign that was called "Back to the Basics" where I went back to the street, went back to my block, and really felt the people. We've got to go back to that sometimes. We distance ourselves from that and we see it from afar. Some people can't relate back to that; once you're out of it, they don't want to relate back to that. It's always good to get back to the basics, though. You've got to touch the roots, you've got to touch those people. Regardless of what's going on, people always respect that.
Every Morning You Have Two Choices: Continue To Sleep With Your Dreams, Or Wake Up and Chase Them.
We all need that sometimes, to get re-sparked again. Sometimes it's different influences and different motivations; sometimes we've got to go and get back to the basics.
A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.
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